alextoh (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} alextoh) wrote,@ 2005-12-16 04:15:00 |
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Because i promised
Now you see... my girlfriend's pretty bored and i'm pretty bored. So i kinda promised her to blog about something. Its kind hard for me to blog about something proper because it can't be any frivolous blog. when I first heard of the idea of blogging, I immediately decided that my blogs shouldn't be a collection of my photos and notes of my life. Every blog entry should have a point, maybe in some satirical manner or emotional manner or intellectual manner. I didn't want it to turn into a forum or an outlet for me to display my everyday life to the many strange people i don't know who come across my blog. Instead, I've always hoped that some entry that i make would either make someone laugh or get someone thinking about what i've wrote. Clearly, there is a philosophy to blogging to me.
To me, there is a distinction between your personal ideas and your personal life. The latter is intimate and not freely displayed in such a manner that the whole world is privy to it. The former is exactly what one needs to tell the whole world about. Ideas change the world and i hope to be part of this progress. I believe that the most influential thing a person can do is to change a person's mind. Ask yourself, has there not been a movie, a person or a book that has impacted your life? That is why idea should not be kept in one's head because it only has efficacy when expressed. Thats why a blog, simply because of its public nature is the perfect forum for the common person to get these ideas out of his/her head.
Have we abused or misused this power given to us? Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that a blog can be so much more than what it has been generally used for at the moment. I mean do we really need to know what someone has had for lunch or dinner? I agree its fun to read though and its not really an abuse in the sense of "possibly of genuine worldwide communication and what do people use it for? Porn". So therefore, its not misuse in the latter sense that its great for catching up and getting informed and reading about each other's lives.
But seriously, has blogging reached its full potential?
Now you see... my girlfriend's pretty bored and i'm pretty bored. So i kinda promised her to blog about something. Its kind hard for me to blog about something proper because it can't be any frivolous blog. when I first heard of the idea of blogging, I immediately decided that my blogs shouldn't be a collection of my photos and notes of my life. Every blog entry should have a point, maybe in some satirical manner or emotional manner or intellectual manner. I didn't want it to turn into a forum or an outlet for me to display my everyday life to the many strange people i don't know who come across my blog. Instead, I've always hoped that some entry that i make would either make someone laugh or get someone thinking about what i've wrote. Clearly, there is a philosophy to blogging to me.
To me, there is a distinction between your personal ideas and your personal life. The latter is intimate and not freely displayed in such a manner that the whole world is privy to it. The former is exactly what one needs to tell the whole world about. Ideas change the world and i hope to be part of this progress. I believe that the most influential thing a person can do is to change a person's mind. Ask yourself, has there not been a movie, a person or a book that has impacted your life? That is why idea should not be kept in one's head because it only has efficacy when expressed. Thats why a blog, simply because of its public nature is the perfect forum for the common person to get these ideas out of his/her head.
Have we abused or misused this power given to us? Yes and no. Yes, in the sense that a blog can be so much more than what it has been generally used for at the moment. I mean do we really need to know what someone has had for lunch or dinner? I agree its fun to read though and its not really an abuse in the sense of "possibly of genuine worldwide communication and what do people use it for? Porn". So therefore, its not misuse in the latter sense that its great for catching up and getting informed and reading about each other's lives.
But seriously, has blogging reached its full potential?
